Vaia Touna

Vaia Touna is Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. She holds an M.A. in Ancient Greek Religion from Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece and a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. Her research focuses on the sociology of religion, acts of identification and social formation, as well as methodological issues concerning the use of the category of “religion” in the study of the ancient Graeco-Roman world, and more broadly she is interested in how the past gets constituted.